July 2, 2024

VIDEO: Mutual Aid, Agriculture & Resilience Part 3

Mutual Aid Organizing Strategies for Regenerative Agriculture and Community Resilience: A Practical Intensive, is a workshop where each participant will create an action plan for how to engage in Co-operate WNC’s emerging movement to grow a regional mutual aid society in western North Carolina as a transformative response to the social and ecological challenges we…

VIDEO: Mutual Aid, Agriculture & Resilience with Zev Friedman

Mutual Aid Organizing Strategies for Regenerative Agriculture and Community Resilience: A Practical Intensive, is a workshop where each participant will create an action plan for how to engage in Co-operate WNC’s emerging movement to grow a regional mutual aid society in western North Carolina as a transformative response to the social and ecological challenges we…

VIDEO: Cooperative Economic Models for Our Region Part 9

There’s a deep multi-cultural history of integrating social and economic co-operation with agricultural systems via a pattern widely referred to as “mutual aid”. Some examples of historical mutual aid societies that explicitly help farmers include The Grange, Via Campesina, Italian farming co-ops, and Cherokee Gadugi. Since land is the basis of all survival and of…